Montgomery inn hoped to open before kickoff of new ASU stadium

1:19 AM,
Nov. 15, 2012

Work continues Friday on the DoubleTree Hotel, formerly the Madison Hotel, in downtown Montgomery.

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With the Turkey Day Classic and the debut of Alabama State University's new 26,500-seat stadium on the horizon, downtown Montgomery hotel rooms are selling out for next week.

One of the people least surprised about that is Tom Quatrochi, general manager of the DoubleTree Hotel on Madison Avenue, which is scheduled to open in January after a $6 million renovation.

Quatrochi said the hotel originally was scheduled for a fall 2012 opening to coincide with the kickoff of ASU's new stadium and had sold about $100,000 in bookings before "the reality of our situation became apparent." ...